Conquer Club

• Should the reserve policy vary between types of tournaments (such as round-robin, single-elimination "knock-out", team tournaments)?
• How many invites (or, otherwise, how many days) is ideal to allow a player to join a tourney game?
• Lenient or strict enforcement with the reserve policy; should it depend on if the player is premium or non-premium?
• When is it better to simply give opponents a victory by forfeit instead of replacing the missing player with a reserve?
• Any other comments you have related are always welcome!

• Should the reserve policy vary between types of tournaments (such as round-robin, single-elimination "knock-out", team tournaments)? I believe so, yes.
  
• How many invites (or, otherwise, how many days) is ideal to allow a player to join a tourney game? I usually prefer a maximum of two invites, with 12-24 hours apart in case they are aware for personal reasons etc.
  
• Lenient or strict enforcement with the reserve policy; should it depend on if the player is premium or non-premium? In my mind it has less to do with premium or non-premium, but more with the tournament. Is it a fast paced tournament? Then strict, if there are tournament games lagging anyway, there is no need realistically to be strict with it if a player is faced with a temporary need to wait.
  
• When is it better to simply give opponents a victory by forfeit instead of replacing the missing player with a reserve?
  Generally if the tournament is further along i would give a forfeit instead or replacement, but if its in the beginning stages definitely fill in a reserve. Again, this depends on your tournament set up however.
  
• Any other comments you have related are always welcome! Only a few of these seem centered on reserve policy, but I decided to answer anyway for you .
  

IcePack wrote:

• Should the reserve policy vary between types of tournaments (such as round-robin, single-elimination "knock-out", team tournaments)? I believe so, yes.
  
• How many invites (or, otherwise, how many days) is ideal to allow a player to join a tourney game? I usually prefer a maximum of two invites, with 12-24 hours apart in case they are aware for personal reasons etc.
  
• Lenient or strict enforcement with the reserve policy; should it depend on if the player is premium or non-premium? In my mind it has less to do with premium or non-premium, but more with the tournament. Is it a fast paced tournament? Then strict, if there are tournament games lagging anyway, there is no need realistically to be strict with it if a player is faced with a temporary need to wait.
  
• When is it better to simply give opponents a victory by forfeit instead of replacing the missing player with a reserve?
  Generally if the tournament is further along i would give a forfeit instead or replacement, but if its in the beginning stages definitely fill in a reserve. Again, this depends on your tournament set up however.
  
• Any other comments you have related are always welcome! Only a few of these seem centered on reserve policy, but I decided to answer anyway for you .

• Should the reserve policy vary between types of tournaments (such as round-robin, single-elimination "knock-out", team tournaments)? I think it has to be flexible because different tournaments have different requirements
• How many invites (or, otherwise, how many days) is ideal to allow a player to join a tourney game? I try to give at least 48hrs
• Lenient or strict enforcement with the reserve policy; should it depend on if the player is premium or non-premium? If it is posted in the tournament rules I think you should keep it fairly strict as that is what everyone is counting on you enforcing the rules. Although if someone pm's me and says i.e "I will be gone for five days do you think we can postpone my invites till then" I will try to be lenient as they were good enough to let me know instead of just not accepting the invites.
• When is it better to simply give opponents a victory by forfeit instead of replacing the missing player with a reserve? I think if you are pretty far into the tournament this is acceptable, say half way through the number of games...of course once again depends on the tournament setup. If you play three games through the whole tourney to win...then winning one by forfeit will not get you your minimum three games played to get the Tourney achievement medal
• Any other comments you have related are always welcome!